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Dorothy L. Sayers, an Uncommon card
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Dorothy L. Sayers quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dorothy L. Sayers card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Her first novel, Whose Body?, was ______ in 1923.
Answer
published. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923. From the Dorothy L. Sayers article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea 99 · Poverty 96 · Harold Pinter 90 · Dorothy L. Sayers 86 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter 260,000 · Dorothy L. Sayers 190,000 · Jacques Offenbach 100,000 · Missy Higgins 67,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in medieval French.
- She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence.
- Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dorothy L. Sayers article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Dorothy L. Sayers
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dorothy L. Sayers (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : uncredited, published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
